I used to believe racism in the United States was overstated. Sure, it existed. But it's not widespread. Common.
Well...I was wrong.
"Zohran Mamdani is a terrorist"
"Mamdani supports ISIS and Hamas"
"New York City faces sharia law"
"Mamdani wants to murder jews"
The amount of shit published about this guy is absolutely insane.
He recently attended the 9/11 memorial ceremony.
He exchanged a brief hug with representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and smiled for 5 seconds.
Immediatly, politicians went wild
Senator Ted Cruz:
Speaker Mike Johnson:
He smiled 5 seconds in a 5 hour ceremony and they accuse him of celebrating terrorism.
Here is the video. You can clearly see that he was stoic, he hugged her, then he immediatly went back to being stoic.
At the same 9/11 ceremony, JD Vance and Howard Lutnick laughed and joked.
No one cares.
I never thought I would say this.
The US is more racist than I ever imagined.
Imagine your job security depends on tweeting about the mayor smiling at an event to inflame racist natonalists. The political leadership of the US spends more time on bullshit like this than governing, but the fact that it's effective is the real sad part.
he was attacked by the old guard DNC and the gop at once, using the same tactic. hes too likable to be hated. even the "racist/islamaphobic" comments fall short. i think mamdami has been careful as far as legislation goes.
They can say whatever they want as long as he's the only politician delivering material prosperity to working people. The price of rent and groceries will always be more important than sharia law or whatever nonsense the neoliberals come up with.